Quotes About Trust

But how did she make you agree?" I demand. "She has no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you—" He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. "She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

Alex is the one... He's the spy. - Call

You ought to be on my side,' he says, looking hurt. 'I was poisoned.' 'That's another good reason for me to go in your place,' Tiernan puts in. 'Pragmatist,' says Oak, as though it's a dirty word.

I cannot lie. I cannot deny you. Page 305

Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

But how did she make you agree?' I demand. 'She had no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you-' He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. 'She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.' And I trusted Taryn.

I only hope he doesn't taste the bitterness of poison on my lips.

Perhaps you shouldn't trust me with your heart. I might break it.

I don't care. I run into his arms. Cardan's fingers dig into my back. [...] But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

You have carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you have carried it long before that.

Nothing he says is a lie, but all his words are riddles.

Jude and I had a misunderstanding," Cardan says carefully. "But we're not enemies. And I am not your enemy, either, Taryn." "You think everything's a game," she says. "You and Locke." "Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game," he says. "You may accuse me of much, but not that.

They have a friend—" Tana began. "I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him.

Once upon a time there was a little girl, and she told a lie to her friend's brother so that her friend's brother drove her to the bus station. She brought with her a bottle of orange soda, fifty dollars (half in change), sparkly slippers, and her cell phone. He thought he was helping. So did she.

You're going to be okay,' I say. 'You know,' he says, hanging on to me, 'that ought to be reassuring. But when mortals say it, it doesn't mean the same thing as when the Folk do, does it? For you, it's an appeal. A kind of hopeful magic. You say I will be well because you fear I won't be.

Just because I am to protect you does not give you governance over me.

You could totally like Tamara -" - Jasper "What does it matter?" Call exploded... "Don't you get it? It doesn't matter. She'll always like Aaron better." Jasper's eyes widened. "Whoa," he said. "Looks like I hit on an awkward truth here.

I wanted to show you that you could trust me, that you didn't need to give me orders for me to do things. I wanted to show you that I believed you'd thought it all through. But that's no way to rule. And it's not really even trust, when someone can order you to do it anyway.

Watch the blade, not the soldier, Madoc told me many times. Steel never deceives.

Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine.

It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house. If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me. He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.

Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.